The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-17
LOOKING AFTER TIE WOUNDED.
Removal of the Sufferers From Ohatsworth
and Piper City snd Peoria.

Removal of the Sufferers From OhatswOrth
and Piper City snd Peoria.
CHICAGO, August 12.-The Times Forest
special says:
Early this morning the officers and
physicians of the railroad came to the con-
clusion that it was high time to look after
the wounded, or at least such of them as
were able, should be moved from Chats
worth and Piper City to Peoria. The
reasons for this action were many; some
of the wounded lived in or near Peoria,
and naturally desire to get to their homes.
Moreover the facilities for taking care Of
the disabled in the little town were not so
good as in Peoria, which, as everybody
knows has its full quota of hotels
and hospitals. The ladies of Chatsworth,
Piper City and Fairbury were untiring,
and the officials thought 1t was asking a
little too much of them to take care of the
ailiDg people in these broiling dog days.
not that any one even heard complaint
or murmur from any of the ladies. Q1ite
to the contrary. The word was passed
along the line that ell slightly injured or
able to get to Peoria and their homes with
out danger would be sent to Peoria by
special train. This was, indeed, good news
TO many of the poor sufferers, who seemed
delighted and cheered with the outlook.
Early in the afternoon they began hob
bling to the station at Chatsworth; many
were badly bruised and showed faces all
discolored, blood.shot eyes, arms broken,
etc. Notwithstanding their pains, few
implanted bat crawled to the depot so as
to take passage on the special. These
were the GONZALES cent, and as they were
helped into the cars and made comfortable,
expressions of heartfelt gratitude to the
genuine Ssmarltans of Livingston and
Ford Counties, were heard coming from
lips cut and torn. These people took their
departure on the midday train west and
as it pulled away from the station, rip
pie OF good-byes, and God-speeds passed
through the crowd.
The uHcoffined dead disappeared early
in the day, and it was indeed high time
| the bodies were removed from public gaze.
| They had lain over twenty-four hours in
| the depot and the improvised morgues I'M
| til their appearance was very revolving.
| Many had been recognized during the
| night and claimed by friends and rela-
| tives who had gotten collins and made
| preparations to take the bodies to places of
| sepulcher. The hideous bodies of the I'M
known unfortunates were carefully car
| ried away, washed and laid out in coarse
shrouds. Then they were examined by
| surgeons and agents of the company who
made memoranda of physical marks for
| purposes of future Identification. The
names of some OF these were obtained from
the tickets which they had bought for the
| excursion. The railroad commissioners
wanted photographs made OF the dead, but
this project was by no means feasl-
| BILE, owing to the condition of the
| bodies. This description was made in
triplicate, one copy going to the coroner
| OF Livingston County, second to the rail
! road company and the third as waybill
| or ticket for the dozen or more bodies.
The company had provided a number OF
| collins and In these the bodies were placed.
| The transfer was made In freight car far
removed from the station 30 rs to be out Of